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This was not sarcasm, Dean. I was more crying out in despair than anything else. 

What I am angry about in this day and age, 2012, is that you and the Admins does not understand the full consequence of what you are writing and what you are proposing. 

Edited by toroddfuglesteg - February 09 2012 at 20:11

toroddfuglesteg wrote: This was not sarcasm, Dean. I was more, much more crying in despair than anything else.  What I am angry about in this day and age, 2012, is that you and the Admins does not understand the full consequence of what you are writing and what you are proposing. Think, think, think. And when you are getting a technical solution, you don't want a solution. Badger, my office is getting flooded. Jump in the dingy boat, cat.

Some possible solutions then, to try to be constructive.

The least important bit - the list itself - could be reinstated in the bottom right column of the "About Progarchives" tab. That should cater nicely for those who enjoy tracking events on it.

As far as highlighting subjectively good reviews go, seaparating the front page into two parts, where the upper one shows prog reviewers/collabs reviews and the lower other reviews might be a possibility. Not without negative side effects and certainly with some fallout effects, but it should be doable in code and automatic. If all prog reviewers/collabs fall within such a subjective definition that is. Not a perfect solution by any means but one viable and doable if this is a high priority issue.

An easily visible list of reviewers of some sort should be available on the frontpage, as a replacement for the quick lookup the quantity list provided to artists (and, in some cases, labels). Or at least an easily visible link to such a list, understandable as such by someone looking at the webpage for the very first time.

At last, unless plans are afoot for the freed up space in the right column on the frontpage, expand the album addition column to cover 10 rather than the current 5 latest new album additions. Until a better use is found for that space.

toroddfuglesteg wrote: No, what you are creating here is a massive problem for yourself. One you cannot solve without full time monitoring. And that is making PA into a laughing stock if you continue down that road. The problem is that you (= Admins) don't know the difference between a good and a bad opinion. Nobody in PA does, unless I have misread the Bible. You are basing your opinion and your decission on a value you don't know.  It is like x (-y)=ab. How do you solve that problem is beyond me.  Your only two solutions is to.... a. Outline the difference between a good and a bad opinion b. Close PA to reviews done by others than approved reviewers based on a subjective selection criteria It is not a matter of the top 100 list. It is a matter of subjective opinions being turned into facts. And that is really bad for any society.

Edited by Dean - February 10 2012 at 08:08

I have.  

Oh dear.

Edit:

I am sorry that I raised this matter in the first place and I am sorry that the concerns I raised months ago has not reached the Admins when raised in CZ. Raising this matter some hours ago has just proven that my personality has a number of fatal flaws which makes my life extreme difficult, if not impossible to continue.

Edited by toroddfuglesteg - February 10 2012 at 02:31

Windhawk wrote: Finnforest wrote: Dean wrote: Dealing with flood-reviews, poor reviews and reviews that don't "talk in some detail about each album" on a one-to-one basis is reactive and time consuming and does not stop the problem. It is better to be proactive and not encourage them.   No one can guess or predict whether there is any likelihood that this will not have any positive affect on the problem. Maybe it won't, but we think it will and only time will tell for sure.   We'll have to agree to disagree....on both of your assertions there.  So be it.  But did I mention this sucks?  It's a bit like trying to prevent freeloaders on the train by removing the time tables from all the stations I think. But an action has been taken and as all such actions it won't be reversed. No matter what we say or do. That's the way this site works, and one either has to live with it and try to make the best out of it, or move on to pastures somewhat less autocratic.

Pretty true Olav....I'm just frustrated by some things like everyone else, but this isn't the place or time.....usually I'm the guy sticking up for the site and rah rah rah when other people take shots at it.....guess I finally had enough.  It doesn't much matter.  I expressed my opinion here, and to Max earlier before I understood what had happened.  It's their site.  If they think this action is helping, more power to em.  I think it hurts, morale, at how it was handled, and hurts the site by losing a neat front page feature.  I'll leave it at that. 

Windhawk wrote: Dean wrote: Artists and A&R people looking for reviewers can access the collab page from the front page. They can, in theory, but for many of them that page is a wilderness they don't know how to even start navigating in. Even web-savvy artists have problems using that one as a tool.

I know at least two people who were turned off from this site when I recommended it just because of the home page.  Now, I personally love it, but I'm used to it.  First-time visitors may be overwhelmed.

Communism is alive and well or should i say democracy is dead,at least here at PA. Sorry that would imply we were actually all a team here to begin with.Sure i'm going to come off sounding like an ass because i'm at the top of the list but this sucks.And to say having this list here on the front page is harmful or a negative thing is a joke.Only at PA.